Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
Angela Lansbury
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
Phylicia Rashād
as Cassandra Hawkins
Michael Jace
as Samuel Pinkney
David Ogden Stiers
as Stanford Thornton
Madison Mason
as Charles Hobbs
Tim Abell
as Jeb McNell
Beth Grant
as Louisa Ashland
Walton Goggins
as Billy Weber
Taraji P. Henson
as Bess Pinckney
Gloria Stuart
as Eliza Hoops
Tim DeKay
as Robert Mercer
Elizabeth Dennehy
as Archivist
